Academy Awards 2011: Why Wasn’t Despicable Me Nominated for Best Animated Feature?

babble.com - Posted by carolyncastiglia on February 27th, 2011 at 6:45 pm

Despicable Me should hit been appointed for an Oscar.

I’m outlay the daytime with my mother, who is pre-gaming the Academy Awards by watching Red, which, according to The New York Times, “features Bruce Willis and a unit of geezers who ease undergo how to blast automatic weapons.”  Heh.  I haven’t seen most of the movies up for an accolade this year, (though my fingers are crossed for Annette Bening, who was intellectual as always in The Kids Are All Right).  The eld of the films I saw this assemblage were enlivened features, which is not surprising, considering that I’m the mother of a 5-year-old.

15 enlivened films eligible for accolade oratory this year, but exclusive threesome were actually nom’d.  Among the qualifying films, I saw Alpha and Omega and Shrek Forever After, both of which I enjoyed.  My daughter saw a some more of the eligible films with another kinsfolk members: Tangled, Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (a fave of hers) and digit of the threesome appointed films, Toy Story 3 and How to Train Your Dragon.  The ordinal flick appointed for Best Animated Feature is The Illusionist, directed by Sylvain Chomet of The Triplets of Belleville, the 2003 flick that was also appointed for Best Animated Feature.  The lodging for The Illusionist is appealing, and the flick seems illustrated in the aforementioned flush and lush artefact Belleville was.  While I’m sure The Illusionist is lovely, there are exclusive digit enlivened films I watched more than once in the terminal year, and they are Fantastic Mr. Fox (nominated for Best Animated Feature terminal year) and Despicable Me, which is alas not appointed for an accolade in 2011 despite jactitation a enthusiastic script and a super-talented cast.

If you haven’t seen Despicable Me, the strategy is a bit arduous to explain, which is perhaps ground the flick didn’t fare as well as it should hit this year.  I didn’t see at every compelled to check the flick based on the ad crusade that ran for it, because it didn’t do the news some justice.  Despicable Me is a large flick most love, kinsfolk and a person’s power to change, not an offensive cartoon about guns and tiny yellow monsters.  There are a some shoot-’em-up sequences in the movie, but they’re likewise over-the-top and well, cartoonish, to be condemned literally by children.  Steve Carell is epically manlike in his persona as Gru, the villain at the heart of the story, “a malefactor mastermind” who “uses a triad of parentless girls as pawns for a grand scheme, (then) finds himself profoundly denaturized by the ontogeny fuck between them,” per IMDB.  I certainly think this flick was commendable of a nomination, especially considering that I bet rattling some dweller families hit seen The Illusionist.

If you haven’t seen Despicable Me, savor the lodging and then rent it to check with the kids.  What another films do you think deserved to be appointed this assemblage that weren’t?

Source: The Wrap

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